Roots of the Routes: Refugee Transnationalism from Turkey to Canada

This dissertation project will analyze the multi-angular process of refugee transnationalism in which different non-European refugee groups seeking asylum in Turkey where they are temporarily settled and protected. After having quasi protection from the Turkish state and living in-between conditions, those non-European asylum seekers are resettled to third countries such as the United States, Canada, and Australia and other European countries. I will be specifically examining the resettlement to Canada due to the Turkish authorities’ geographical limitation based on the 1951 Geneva Convention relating to the Status of Refugees and asylum seekers. The project aims to critically explore the dynamics of transnational refugee networks specifically focusing on the routes of refugees, firstly from home country to Turkey where they are settled and having provided temporary protection; secondly from Turkey to Canada where they are resettled as refugee. It is within this context that the main research question of this dissertation will be: what are the informal and formal practices of routes of refugees and how are the production of knowledge and knowledge of routes diffused among the asylum seekers and refugees?

Faculty Supervisor:

William Walters

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Partner:

Ozyegin University

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Education

University:

Carleton University

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